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CASEY BURNS Posted
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I have some long expertise in various woodwinds and will be offering suggestions on each specifically. I am one of the top makers of Irish Flutes in the US. I also play Galician Folk Music on Gaita and a flute called a Requinta. I also play traditional bagpipe music from France in the Auvergnese, Bourbonnais and Limousin traditions. Occasionally I make the bagpipes for these traditions as well as the Requintas so I am intimate with the sounds of these. Finally, the "Court Bagpipe" of Musette de Cour is another instrument that Garritan should add. I have made a few of these which are similar to Scottish Smallpipes in sound, but brighter and higher pitched closer to the Northumbrian bagpipes (these evolved from the Musette). It would be great to expand the bagpipe collection to include these instruments if missing and to improve the soundfont for the Gaita. As I am getting knee surgery in 2 weeks and have several flutes to complete beforehand I thought I would just send a heads up currently and let you know what is coming later on - probably during my recovery. 

Casey Burns
Kingston WA

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Jeffrey Turner Edited
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Casey,

 

Before you go to too much trouble, be aware that there hasn't been much updating to Garritan products in a very long time. AFAIK, Garritan is no longer with MakeMusic. I haven't seen any evidence that MakeMusic is continuing development of future sample libraries. I have no special knowledge of MakeMusic's plans, but I can see that most of these Garritan products are over 10 years old, and I doubt that any future updating is going to occur.

 

If I'm mistaken about this, it would be nice if someone from MakeMusic would add to this discussion to better inform us all.

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Dave Cusick Posted
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Garritan is most definitely still part of MakeMusic. We have continually maintained and supported the product line, ensuring compatibility and applying functional updates when necessary. Also we released both GPO5 and the CFX Lite in 2016 and announced the Garritan Anthology package this year.

 

While future development plans are not for public forums, I can say that MakeMusic finds great value in our Garritan brand and we definitely have intentions for utilizing those assets going forward. Casey, please feel free to continue to post your comments and feedback here as you like. I am sure with your experience, it will certainly be insightful. 

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Jeffrey Turner Posted
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David, thank you for this input.

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